Some people seem to never grow up. Steven Spielberg is one of them.
Despite being 72 years old, "Uncle Si" has brought another "Number One Player". In addition to the compact plot, gorgeous special effects, and awesome BGM, the easter eggs in the film have been talked about by generations of game, music, and animation fans. We have seen too much analysis of easter eggs, and the island owner will talk to you today about Spielberg, the eternal naughty boy.
After debuting for 50 years, the box office has exceeded 9 billion U.S. dollars. "Jaws", "Indiana Jones" and "Jurassic Park"... these adrenaline-stimulating adventure stories are the guarantee of the box office. Of course, he is not a director who can only make popcorn movies. "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan", "Spy Bridge"... Those serious movies about history and justice will always be major film festivals. Regulars.
A child who is afraid of everything
Some people say that Spielberg is a talented director who was chosen by fate. But he said: In my life, the number of rejections is far greater than the number of affirmations.
Unlike the current image of calling the wind and the rain, Spielberg was a weak and incompatible "bear boy" in his childhood, and he only dared to play "sudden jump out" pranks with his sister at home. Outside, he was slurred, he loved nosebleeds, and the Jewish iconic big nose was also the object of his classmates ridicule.
Inferiority complex made him more timid and cowardly, and even suffered from a lot of phobias: fear of the dark, fear of elevators, fear of roller coasters, fear of planes... But there is only one place that makes him feel safe, and that is the movie theater.
After growing up, it was also the movie that made Spielberg "dare" all kinds of "dare" all the time. For example, he was afraid of water, afraid of things in the water, so "Jaws" was born.
The great white shark opened its mouth in the theater, and all Americans and Spielberg became afraid of water. People are screaming in the cinema while N is watching movies. The consequences of the film also include: the number of swimmers going into the sea dropped sharply, and they did not dare to stretch their feet into the sea while sitting on a floating bed. In the corner of the movie theater, Spielberg had a smirk, just like when he successfully scared his sister in childhood.
"Jaws" made Spielberg famous, and he turned his gaze from the bottom of the sea to the vast universe. Carrying the question that every child has in his mind-Are there aliens in the universe? Spielberg started working on "The Third Type of Contact."
It is said that before the filming started, Spielberg received a 20-page letter from the US Astronautical Administrator, warning him not to film aliens. However, Spielberg is like a kid who is not allowed to climb but wants to climb a wall. Since the country attaches such importance, there must be aliens! Must shoot! And more than one! So he filmed "ET" after filming "The Third Type of Contact", and simply let everyone take a good look at what aliens look like.
Spielberg's imagination is always rooted in the simplest emotions in ordinary life. He tells the story from the perspective of a child, but the questions raised are not naive. For example, "ET" ostensibly tells the story of the innocent friendship between the little boy Elliott and aliens. In fact, it makes adults reflect: Will aliens come to the earth to go to war? When you are full of kindness to this world, you will definitely be treated kindly by this world.
Another example is the "Number One Player" currently being screened. You will find that no matter how advanced the concept of the movie is, the careful portrayal of human characters can never be replaced by dazzling technology and special effects. When you are alone, it is difficult for you to accomplish your goals; but if you meet a group of like-minded people, the benefits can be cut off.
Say I'm naive? Get an Oscar when serious
These "chicken soup" in Spielberg's films successfully captured many audiences, but some critics stepped up and accused Spielberg's films of being too playful and would ruin Hollywood.
As we all know, it is difficult for a director to change the established style, just like letting Quentin Tarantino shoot pure love and freshness, let Christopher Nolan make a film without brainstorming, let alone the director’s headache, the audience will not watch it. Buy it.
However, Spielberg still grinds his sword for ten years, facing his own Jewish bones and blood and facing the hidden pain of the Holocaust, and shot "Schindler's List" that is enough to be included in the world's film history.
In 1993, the film began shooting in Poland, where the Auschwitz concentration camp is located. He stood on that land for a long time and told the crew that this is not just a movie, it is a story that actually happened.
At the 66th Academy Awards, "Schindler's List" received 13 nominations and 7 awards. Spielberg also won the Best Director Award. On this night, Spielberg, who has always been smiling and optimistic, couldn't help but shed tears. This is the touch after the realization of the dream and the relief after facing the dark side of Jewish history.
But the critics were still dissatisfied, saying that Spielberg was either only applauded or just popular. So 5 years later, he came up with a movie with excellent artistic and commercial achievements, and is still considered one of the best war films in Hollywood history, "Saving Private Ryan".
The previous war films were shot from the third perspective, but Spielberg used a lot of plasma and props to restore the cruelty of war through the first perspective. This makes all subsequent war movies become its sequels. If you don't believe it, go and watch "Blood War Hacksaw Ridge".
Take the film industry technology as one's own "toy"
Being able to make popcorn movies, but also able to handle serious themes, winning frequently and selling at the box office, this is an unattainable pinnacle in the eyes of many directors. But Spielberg once again opened up innovation in film technology.
For example, he didn’t want to see the awkward movement of the monster at a glance, so he created the real "Jurassic Park" with CG technology. "Godzilla's Hollywood monster movie era."
"Jurassic Park" has a flexible and perfect control of horror, action, special effects, spectacles and humorous elements, making it a commercial movie that will never go out of style.
In the movie "War of the World", aliens arrive, and Tom takes his children to escape the city from the highway. Spielberg is tired of fragmentary lens switching, and for a stronger sense of substitution, he wants to take the shot to the end. From the inside to the outside of the car, from the middle shot to the close-up, and finally with just two shots, I completed this "one shot to the end" with a fake. As a result, "Gravity" and "Birdman" all "used doctrines" and played "pseudo-long shots".
In the documentary "Industrial Light & Magic: The Impossibility of Creation", Spielberg and the special effects director described the production process of this "long shot" together. Technical experimentation has always been a major hobby of Spielberg.
In recent years, the VR concept, which has become more and more popular in the film industry, has also shown us a mature form in "Top Player". Movies in the future may really let the audience become a part of it. The audience is no longer "watching" in the traditional sense, but closer to "operating".
Spielberg undoubtedly saw the almost irreversible trend, and used the movie to remind us that games are not the only ones, life is real. Perhaps one day in the future, when we interact with the people in the movie, Spielberg and his "Number One Player" will suddenly flash in our minds.
Cool things will never go out of style,
Cool people too.
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